Impact of social protection programmes
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- Social protection in southern Africa: lessons from 20 case studies
- ( S. Devereux;F. Ellis;P. White / Wahenga.net, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme , 2008)
- This series of briefs provides a regional synthesis of findings of 12 thematic studies and 20 individual case studies of social transfer schemes undertaken by the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Pro...
- Lessons learned from a cash transfer project in Malawi
- ( K. Savage;E. Umar / Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI , 2006)
- In response to the 2004/5 crop failure, Oxfam planned a programme in southern Malawi, which included a ‘pilot’ cash-transfer project in Traditional Authority (TA) Kapichi, Thyolo District....
Consumer price subsidies and nutrition: results from two Chinese provinces
- ( R., T. Jensen;N., H. Miller / Center for International Development, Harvard University , 2008)
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Many developing countries use food price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However, subsidising goods on which households spend a high proportion of their budget can...
Statistical methodology for targeting cash transfers in Tunisia
- ( S. Bibi;C. Muller / Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme , 2006)
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This paper introduces a new methodology to target direct transfers against poverty. This method is based on estimation methods that focus on the poor.
... - Social reforms and civil conflict in Tunisia
- ( C. Muller / Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme , 2007)
- This document draws some lessons from the Tunisian experience of social reforms and associated civil conflict. The main focus is the riots that occurred after subsidy cuts and their possible substitut...
- Learning from a successful safety net programme in Ethiopia
- ( Wahenga.net, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme , 2007)
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This brief synthesises three reports on Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Nets Programme (PSNP).
The first is on trends in programme transfers within targeted households. It analyses t... - Migration and social protection in Bangladesh
- ( J. Seeley;K. Gardner / Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex , 2007)
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How does migration exacerbate the difficulties that many people already face in accessing formal social protection, such as additional income or food? And how can migration itself facilitate access...
- Comparing effectiveness of South Africa’s rural and urban development programmes
- ( D., Everatt; M., Smith; G. Solanki / Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network , 2006)
- This report is the third in a sequence that gives qualitative and quantitative data from socio-economic and demographic baseline studies in 21 South African areas (nodes) making up the Integrated Sust...
- Finds little evidence for the educational impact of cash transfers
- ( F. Reimers; C. da Silva; E. Trevino / UNESCO Institute for Statistics , 2006)
- This paper examines the educational effects of conditional cash transfers (CCT) for education. The study finds that based on the evidence reviewed in this paper, there is very limited support for the ...
- Material and non-material value of a social assistance initiative in Peru
- ( J. Copestake / ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath , 2006)
- Research into the material effects of social assistance programmes is important but it can be misleading if it fails to capture the true value of such programmes to intended beneficiaries and other st...
